Iran Will Not Surrender to Trump’s Gangster-Style Threats [Preview]

About this episode

Brian Becker and Layan Fuleihan discuss the collapse of US-Iran negotiations and the escalation of US military actions against Iran.

The Islamabad talks collapsed. Twenty-one hours of negotiations in Pakistan, the first face-to-face between the US and Iran since 1979, and it ended with nothing. Oil futures jumped seven percent. And the President of the United States did all of this from a golf club in Florida after spending Saturday night at a UFC fight in Miami where the crowd booed him. And starting today, Monday, April 13th, the US is escalating once again, declaring a full blockade of Iranian ports by the US Navy. Brian Becker and Layan Fuleihan discuss. This is a preview of a patrons-only episode. Subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/TheSocialistProgram to hear the full episode, get access to all our patrons-only content, and help make this show possible.

People in this episode

Host: Brian Becker

Guest: Layan Fuleihan

Topics covered

• US-Iran relations
• political negotiations
• military escalation
• oil market
• Trump administration
• international diplomacy

Keywords

• Iran
• US Navy
• blockade
• negotiations
• Trump
• oil futures
• Islamabad talks
• UFC fight
• politics
• international relations

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: US Navy

Places: Iran, United States, Florida, Pakistan

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